Unnamed People of Yoknapatawpha 7

Faulkner's "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury refers at different moments to the "whole town and county" (329), the "living fellowtownsmen" during Jason's time (330), and "the town" (340) - terms which almost always refer exclusively to Jefferson's white population. This generic group and the Compsons seem to have an estranged, at times even antagonistic relationship to each other. The "town and county" expect that the descendants of Governor Compson will "fail at everything" they touch (329), and as he sits alone in his office on the Square, Jason III composes "caustic and satiric eulogies" on his "fellowtownsmen" (330).